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Can Badges in Gamified Systems Promote Weight-Related Behavior Change?
The current global prevalence of obesity among children and young adults is much higher than in previous decades. Despite efforts to prevent childhood obesity, motivation is a barrier to weight-related behavior change. ... -
Carbon Catabolite Regulation of Yersinia pestis Pathogenesis
In order to survive in the unique environments associated with different aspects of the infectious cycle, Yersinia pestis evokes adaptive responses to concertedly regulate gene expression. The overall objective of this ... -
Casting Aside Bent Bodies: Embodied Violence as an Everyday Experience for Filipino Migrant Seafarers
This research traces the intersections of migrant citizenship and political economic practices in regards to the health worlds of Filipino migrant seafarers as one potential way to understand how structural and symbolic ... -
CD4+ T cells in the pathogenesis of visceral leishmaniasis
Visceral leishmaniasis, caused by infection with the intracellular protozoan Leishmania donovani, is a chronic disease that affects the spleen, liver and bone marrow. Patients present with high parasite burdens in visceral ... -
CELLULAR ALTERATIONS OF ADULT HIPPOCAMPAL NEUROGENESIS IN THE FGF14−/− MOUSE MODEL
Over the past decade, growing evidence indicates that adult neurogenesis (the production of functionally mature neurons from progenitor cells in the adult mammalian brain) is linked to the etiology of many neurodegenerative ... -
Cellular mechanisms of environmental enrichment: Novel discovery-based strategies for target identification for neuropsychiatric disorders
Neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders are highly prevalent disorders and immensely costly to society. Treatment options are limited, and cocaine use disorder in particular, has ... -
Cellular mechanisms that modulate kainate receptor trafficking and assembly
(2007-06-08)Kainate receptors (KARs) in the mammalian brain play a variety of physiological roles that require selective assembly, intracellular trafficking, and synaptic targeting. Cytoplasmic and non-cytoplasmic determinants that ... -
Cellular requirements for antibody production in a novel LPS-enhanced model of autoimmune myasthenia gravis
(2009-07-20)Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a T cell-independent adjuvant known to abrogate peripheral tolerance. For the first time, the potential of LPS to induce antigenspecific B cell responses to acetylcholine receptor ... -
Certified Nurse Midwives' Barriers Toward Sexual Health Screening Practices
Sexuality and sexual heath are important components of general health screenings. Reports of sexual health screening practices are limited to physicians, nurses and nurse practitioners. No research exists to describe ... -
Chagas disease, need and progress made in implementing donor blood screening in the United States.
(2007-08-01)Background: Chagas disease is a parasitic infection caused by Trypanosoma cruzi affecting 11 million people worldwide. The condition can be acquired via exposure of a wound or mucosa to infected feces from a reduviid bug, ... -
Change in positive emotion and recovery of functional status following stroke rehabilitation in older adults
(2010-04-26)Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States and represents a major public health challenge. Recovery of functional status following stroke is a primary focus for rehabilitation, and is an important health ... -
Changes in the prevalence of cognitive impairment among older Americans, 1993-2004: Overall trends and differences by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status
(2010-03-03)Research indicates that the health of the older population in the United States, as measured by most dimensions, has improved over the past two decades. Population-level changes in health have been attributed to increases ... -
Characteristics of a healing environment as described by expert nurses who practice within the conceptual framework of Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings: A qualitative study\r\n
(2008-02-14)The purpose of this study was to identify and describe characteristics of a healing environment from a nursing perspective. This qualitative study was conducted using an interpretive descriptive method consistent with a ... -
Characterization and application of adipose derived stem cells following burn injury
Severe burns induce a prolonged inflammatory response in subcutaneous adipose tissue that modulates signaling in adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs), which hold potential for healing burn wounds or generating skin substitutes. ... -
Characterization and therapeutic evaluation of a traumatic brain injury model in compliance with common data elements
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health problem. It represents the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children and young adults, resulting in long- term sequelae for a considerable number of survivors. ... -
Characterization of a Low-Fidelity Live-Attenuated Vaccine for Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus
During RNA virus replication, there is the potential to incorporate mutations that affect virulence or pathogenesis. For live-attenuated vaccines, this has implications for stability, as replication may result in mutations ... -
Characterization of a Newly Identified Alphavirus, Eilat Virus
Most alphaviruses are mosquito-borne and exhibit a broad host range, infecting many different vertebrates including birds, rodents, equids, humans, and nonhuman primates as well as mosquito species encompassing at least ... -
Characterization of a novel pro-apoptotic role for nuclear associated BCL-2
(2006-11-03)Both stroke and cancer are major public health problems that inflict immeasurable suffering to victims and their families. The treatment options currently in place for both stroke victims and cancer patients are limited. ... -
Characterization of a recombinant chimeric yellow fever 17D vaccine - dengue-4 virus
The disease dengue is caused by four genetically and serologically related virus termed dengue virus-1 to dengue virus-4 (DENV-1 to DENV-4) There are currently no licensed therapeutics, but there is a recently licensed ... -
Characterization of Aryl Hydrocarbon receptor and Kruppel-Like-Factor-6 interaction
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand activated transcription factor which regulates toxic response to environmental pollutants, including 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). Upon ligand activation, the ...